"Hey Beaver, let's try smokin' it." - Larry Mondello, "Leave It to Beaver"
I hope this is one of the few posts on this diary that has no accompanying visual aid, save this stock photo of a camera. The problem is I can’t post a photo here because of the nature of the topic.
Priorities change in life all the time. Ideas develop over the years and we often criticize ourselves for indescretions of the past… Read the rest of this entry »
Ashleigh and I travelled to our great state capitol Columbus today to see Adam, my new nephew and her new cousin. The results were spectacular. We got to experience about everything: some crying, some smiling (gas), peeing, crapping, eating. How many ways can you describe a baby four days old? Cute, cuddly, tiny, squishy… a miracle. We love him. Anyway, here are some photos.
In about a week, I am taking a trip to Plains, Georgia for the annual Peanut Festival. This will be my third trip to the town and my second to the Peanut Festival. On Saturday, President Carter will do a book signing and I have been purchasing many of his books. I found that on Amazon, many of these used books go for anywhere from one penny to a few dollars. So far I have been very happy with the quality of these used books (and some audio CD’s).
Anyway, I’ve always enjoyed the Jimmy Carter books I’ve read so I basically purchased almost all of them, thinking I could get a few signed on my trip. This particular one, Always a Reckoning and Other Poems was literally 50 cents plus shipping (about $4.00 total).
When I opened the package, I examined the book and it was in excellent condition. And it was a nice hardback first edition to boot. But when I opened it up… Read the rest of this entry »
When I updated my technological toys earlier this year and actually entered the 21st century, one of items I replaced was my computer scanner. To my delight, I found that this new scanner was not only faster, not only capable of scanning photo negatives, but also able to scan in slides. That is, the kind of slides that people would often take in place of photographs.
I have very vivid and pleasant memories of gathering together in our family room, setting up a movie screen, making popcorn and just looking at slides – and sometimes throwing in an 8mm home movie as well. But even just looking at slides was a fun family event. My Dad still has these slides in his possession and brought over a little gray suitcase full of them. I worked my way through the bulk of them and while most were from his childhood and teenage years, there were some of me as a baby, too (like this one for instance). Read the rest of this entry »